It’s been 30 years since the public first heard about Area 51. Why everyone wants to storm Area 51 on September 20th?

Area 51 is the most secretive, domestic military facility in the United States. It is located in the high desert of Southern Nevada, seventy-five miles north of Las Vegas. Its facilities have been constructed over the past sixty years around a flat, dry lakebed called Groom Lake. The government has never admitted it exists.

This Area 51 Tour is rare and extra special because, it is also called as the Death Valley AND Area 51 as well! Now, thousands expected to flood rural Nevada town for Storm Area 51 event. Area 51 is popularly known as the site of rumored government studies of outer space aliens.

The small town of Rachel, Nevada located in the middle of the desert and home to only about 50 people could soon be flooded with thousands after a joke Facebook post to storm Area 51 went viral.

A top-secret US Air Force base, commonly known as Area 51. The secret US military training facility codenamed Area 51 has been at the centre of numerous conspiracy theories involving aliens. But the mysterious testing facility is now at the centre of an internet joke which has blown out of proportion.

As per Vox news, because everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified top secret when it is happening, this is a book about secrets. About government projects and operations that have been hidden for decades some for good reason, others for arguably terrible ones, and one that should have never happened at all. These operations took place in the name of national security and they all involved cutting edge science.

Thousands of people are expected to travel to desert towns in Nevada this weekend, inspired by a viral call to “storm Area 51” in hopes of overpowering the US military and uncovering whatever government secrets might be hiding there. This belief that Area 51’s “military base” is a cover for alien research has been fully mythologized by pop culture over the years, becoming an entrenched part of alien lore.

But those who arrive hoping to find parked flying saucers and green alien bodies laid out on cold metal tables will surely be disappointed, for two reasons. The first is that local authorities surely won’t let anyone near the secretive site in Nevada.

“Any attempt to access a federal installation illegally is highly discouraged,” a spokesperson for the Nellis Air Force Base that runs Area 51 told Vox. “Those who trespass on a federal installation without proper authority will be apprehended until they can be turned over to the appropriate law enforcement authorities and are subject to local and federal penalties and prosecution.”

Experts says, it likely remains an area for the Air Force and US spy agencies to develop the next generation of aircraft and other weapons of war. It’s no wonder then that the secrets of Area 51 are buried so deeply. But the lack of information about what actually goes on at Area 51 has allowed the many rumors and myths about the site to flourish. These myths have brought many Americans to believe that they deserve to know about whatever’s happening there.

Area 51 is the “birthplace of overhead espionage”

The "Storm Area 51" Facebook event went viral last month as people pledged to crash the secret military base in an attempt to "see them aliens" and has grown in scale in recent weeks. More than 2 million Facebook users have now said they are going, with over 1.4 million replying they were interested.

The event, which is scheduled to take place Friday, Sept. 20 between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. PDT, has garnered significant media attention, enough for the Air Force to issue a statement saying that it "would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces." It added that it [the U.S. Air Force] "always stands ready to protect America and its assets."

The Area 51 Alien Center in Amargosa Valley, Nevada, about 90 miles north of Las Vegas. (Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

“A mass casualty incident, serious traffic accident, large fire, anything along those lines. Even the potential for something similar to October 1," he told FOX5. "Anything along those lines we want to be prepared for to the best of our ability."

October 1 refers to the Las Vegas Massacre, the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.

The recent campaign on facebook"Storm Area 51" Facebook event went viral in July as people pledged to crash the secret military base in an attempt to "see them aliens."